Abstract
This study tackles the problem of the relation between science, sexuality, and the oppression of women, through one recent example: research on the lateralization of the brain. Science and its popularizations have depicted the structure of women brains as being different from those of men and responsible for different cognitive abilities and inferior visuo-spatial skills. The critique of this problem lies with the examination of brain science's biases, inconsistencies, and philosophical origins. The argument also compares contemporary lateralization studies to the sexualizing discourses of craniometry and pornography, and investigates the process by which cultural ideologies justify sexual inequality by appealing to assumed innate attributes of the female body.
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